Excursion to Hämeenlinna

Last Saturday we went to see our new kitten Siru to Hämeenlinna. It is a city and municipality of about 68,000 inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Tavastia and the modern province of Kanta-Häme in the south of Finland. The distance from Helsinki is about 100 km. Hämeenlinna is the oldest inland city of Finland and was one of the most important Finnish cities until the 19th century. 

It was a cloudy October day, pretty warm, no wind. We enjoyed the city views with colorful foliage 

and old wooden houses. Siru was cute of course ❤︎ and we did some sightseeing too. 

We visited the medieval Häme Castle...

... and the birth place of Jean Sibelius (1865-1957). It was a charming wooden townhouse 

in Empire style, where Sibelius spent the three first years of his life. 

... and The Palander House which presents the lifestyle of 

a bourgeois Hämeenlinna family 100 years ago. 

❤︎❤︎❤︎

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